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Everything looks great. The installer "read me" claims the driver will work on a PB 190, supports a wide range of Mac OS (I'm running 7.5.2 on the PB) and can handle both "Classic" and Open Transport networking (me thinks I'm running "Classic").

Fly in the ointment: when I run the installer, it claims "there is a conflicting ethernet device driver already installed in your System file as "DRVR.ENETO". You must remove this driver before the AirStattion driver can be installed." I can't for the life of me find this conflicting driver file (and, yes, I have the Apple Ethernet extensions disabled on this machine as it has no ethernet, I've looked for invisible files, and poked inside the System suitcase to no avail).

Please help this frustrated old coot.

Thanx,

G4From128k

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Please help this frustrated old coot.

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You realize, of course, that there's no help for that, but alleviating the source of any kind of aggravation is cool!

I assume you've tried booting with all extensions off or the minimum set for installing the drivers and that you're doing a custom install, correct?

Other than that, i've got no clue. =8-\

jt ™.
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Load 7.5.3 and give it a try. Clea r the HD first if you need to.

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jt ™.
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Extensions off did not help. I'm going to reinstall the system and boost it up a few subversions and see if that helps (might solve some other funkiness that this PB has, like the System file having a blank icon!) I'm a bit reluctant to wipe this disk as I do not have a boot-floppy or CD-ROM for this machine and RAM Disks make me nervous.

Cheers,

G4From128k

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This week-end I got a WiFi PC Card at a garage sale for $2. I thought I might be able to get it to work on my PB 190cs. The card is an AirStation 11 Mbps PCMCIA card model number WLI-PCM-L11, made by Buffalo. Courtesy of Google, I got the download for Mac drivers(including 68k drivers!!!) at:

AirStation.com Downloads

Everything looks great. The installer "read me" claims the driver will work on a PB 190, supports a wide range of Mac OS (I'm running 7.5.2 on the PB) and can handle both "Classic" and Open Transport networking (me thinks I'm running "Classic").

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Tried Resedit and it worked!! Sort of

I removed the DRVR resource named ENETO, transplanted the hacked system, successfully installed the driver software with no complaints of conflicts. Can stick in the card and have it appear on the desktop, but .......SIGH! When try to I run the "AirStation Setup" control panel, it complains that I "must configure AppleTalk or TCP/IP to use the AirStation PC Card. Double-click the card icon and configure AppleTalk to use the card." Following said instructions brings up the "Network" control panel with only the built-in LocalTalk port available.

I guess its back to reinstalling the system software. OOOF!

Thanx for the good ideas, hope I can get this to work,

G4From128k

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Resedit!!!!!

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Thanx for the good ideas, hope I can get this to work,

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OOPS!!!! I guess i shoulda mentioned Resedit after all!
i assumed it was an extension in its own right.
i'm not going to assume that you have a base station in range that is correctly configured, however. If not, get thee to an internet cafe and a cup of joe to sip while you are trying to configure that *%$#%^#$ control panel's settings! (i don't know squat about this, but i have a nasty suspicious disposition regarding system software )

jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

RE: Base Station: Well, that is another issue too. At the moment, I've no base station (I'll be ordering one with my next Mac in a month or so). Once I got the PB to really connect to the card (it obviously recognizes the card cuz the card appears on the desktop) I planned to wander aimlessly about town in hopes of sniffing out a connection (we've got tons'o'tech companies about) or just lurk outside the local Starbucks. At this point I just want to see IF the card can work (I'm also going to use share this card with our Pismo, since these two machines are not likely to need to be mobile at the same time)

RE:System updating: Not going well. (This is why I usually buy a Mac and never upgrade the system software!) Tried to use my set of System 7.5 floppies to reinstall from scratch (the preinstall checker complained bitterly that the date of 08/26/2002 was obviously incorrect! LOL!) but the installer wouldn't run (claimed it did not recognize this type of Mac and gave a very strange garbled name to the HD ). So, now I'm trying to use system 7.5 Update 2 (which is really 7.5.3) to try to install later version of things. I'm going to stick with Clasic networking and install Open Transport as a last resort.

Having too much fun now,

G4From128k

The update to 7.5.3 seems to have done the trick!

Time to do the WiFi Wander

Thanx to all for the suggestions!

G4From128k

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